[Xenalyte]

Well, dammit.

Okay, here goes. (Let's see if I can do this right.) When we sit down to play Dungeons & Dragons (I love being DM, by the way), we are casting ourselves as something God didn't make us - like an elf or a cleric or a bard - and therefore we're insulting Him.

Or something. These stupid you're-going-to-hell-for-that arguments make my teeth hurt.

[jude24]

I'm an evangelical Christian (that tagline is a Reformation-era slogan meaning "grace alone"). I have some (solid) Christian friends who play D&D occasionally, and quite frankly, I can't see anything evil about it, since its largely the Middle-Earth world of J.R.R. Tolkien. Actually, it seems to me to be an excuse to gather and eat pizza.

[BlueLancer]

"When we sit down to play Dungeons & Dragons ..."

Well, there's a fine how-do-you-do ...
Didn't you know that Gary Gygax was the Anti-Christ?

Besides, "Chivalry and Sorcery" is a much better set of rules.

Or, even betterest [8')], "T.H.E. Fighter" and "T.H.E. Mage".

[hopespringseternal]

(Let's see if I can do this right.) When we sit down to play Dungeons & Dragons (I love being DM, by the way), we are casting ourselves as something God didn't make us - like an elf or a cleric or a bard - and therefore we're insulting Him.

No, sit down before you hurt yourself, amateur.

Because it involves witchcraft, the occult, and goofy, teenage fantasy artwork. No, really.

When I was in junior high, a group of us that got to school early wanted to go into the lunchroom and play D&D rather than stay outside and amuse ourselves by fighting and breaking things.

The principle asked one of the school staff to take a look at D&D and make sure it wasn't gambling. Well, the guy he asked to look at it is probably posting anti-Potter diatribes somewhere if he is still alive. We got a 45 minute lecture on the evils of witchcraft and satan worship, complete with descriptions of exorcisms of ouija boards.

Here we were a bunch of small town Christian kids dealing with a guy who would be out burning witches if he could, starting with us.

[TigerTale]

When we sit down to play Dungeons & Dragons (I love being DM, by the way),

Mmm...hmm...control freak.

(me too)